Ach today was spent planning my discussion chapter..,
which turns out to be a discussion and lit rview chapter! needless to say I cannot do my discussion without knowing all of my literature... and I have a bit to catch up on! This is good news and bad. It is annoying that I am unable to just 'get on' with the chapter, but good because once I have read this stuff i will be able to do this chapter and the lit review pretty quickly. I will know my onions innit.
Am loving my kindle for this! I have downloaded all my PDF books and reports onto it, and can get all my journal articles too, so don't need to print them or read them on my comp :0) On it as well you can bookmark pages and write notes so it is ace! Doesn't have glare like a laptop so it is much nicer to read, and of course, there is no internet ;0)
But I won't be reading. Oh no. I will be skimming! I will get the gist, take what I need and go! Haha, take that pretend knowledge.
Sooo, tonight I am continuing to gather together my refs for journal articles. Tomorrow I shall look for books I need to read and then will get on with my reading. I probably need to read about 30 more journal articles and 20 odd books. Might be more books, but I shall in no way be reading much of the books, and will be taking quotes and putting them straight into the comp so I can copy and paste them into the text as I need them.
One thing I am worried about is that I don't feel my discussion has anything new to contribute to the thesis. I think i need to tackle this by asking myself if the thesis is finished, and if not, what it is I want to say. I shall do that now.
Arf I am grumpy this evening. I knew it was going to be rubbish when I had to pick up Bean still full of work worry and frustration. If I could i would go for a run now. But I cannae. Luckily DB has come back in time to help put Bean to bed; little man is being a wind-up merchant and I tell you, I am not in the mood! I have been telling him this all afternoon but it seems to just be fuel to his superb conflagration of mischief and hyperactivity. It is my fault because I know full well that when I am stressy about work my patience and tolerance of toddler antics goes out of the window and he knows this, but I can't chill out. I just want to work!
So now I shall work. Can't wait until bean is asleep then I can have some tea, a bit of peace and get on. Honestly, my day starts at 7am and just hasn't stopped. I don't intend to go to bed before I have all my journal articles downloaded or 1am... This cannot bleed into tomorrow, I hate wasting my precious childminder hours doing mundane stuff like this! It should be for brain work ;0)
Anyway, must get on!
x J
which turns out to be a discussion and lit rview chapter! needless to say I cannot do my discussion without knowing all of my literature... and I have a bit to catch up on! This is good news and bad. It is annoying that I am unable to just 'get on' with the chapter, but good because once I have read this stuff i will be able to do this chapter and the lit review pretty quickly. I will know my onions innit.
Am loving my kindle for this! I have downloaded all my PDF books and reports onto it, and can get all my journal articles too, so don't need to print them or read them on my comp :0) On it as well you can bookmark pages and write notes so it is ace! Doesn't have glare like a laptop so it is much nicer to read, and of course, there is no internet ;0)
But I won't be reading. Oh no. I will be skimming! I will get the gist, take what I need and go! Haha, take that pretend knowledge.
Sooo, tonight I am continuing to gather together my refs for journal articles. Tomorrow I shall look for books I need to read and then will get on with my reading. I probably need to read about 30 more journal articles and 20 odd books. Might be more books, but I shall in no way be reading much of the books, and will be taking quotes and putting them straight into the comp so I can copy and paste them into the text as I need them.
One thing I am worried about is that I don't feel my discussion has anything new to contribute to the thesis. I think i need to tackle this by asking myself if the thesis is finished, and if not, what it is I want to say. I shall do that now.
Arf I am grumpy this evening. I knew it was going to be rubbish when I had to pick up Bean still full of work worry and frustration. If I could i would go for a run now. But I cannae. Luckily DB has come back in time to help put Bean to bed; little man is being a wind-up merchant and I tell you, I am not in the mood! I have been telling him this all afternoon but it seems to just be fuel to his superb conflagration of mischief and hyperactivity. It is my fault because I know full well that when I am stressy about work my patience and tolerance of toddler antics goes out of the window and he knows this, but I can't chill out. I just want to work!
So now I shall work. Can't wait until bean is asleep then I can have some tea, a bit of peace and get on. Honestly, my day starts at 7am and just hasn't stopped. I don't intend to go to bed before I have all my journal articles downloaded or 1am... This cannot bleed into tomorrow, I hate wasting my precious childminder hours doing mundane stuff like this! It should be for brain work ;0)
Anyway, must get on!
x J
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